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Although NASA is best known for its space shuttle missions, the agency also manages a large fleet of aircraft that never leaves the Earth. CSC maintains this technically complex fleet, which performs everything from high-altitude scientific research to astronaut training.
CSC maintains some 45 airplanes that operate out of three facilities: the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The aircraft CSC is responsible for represent more than 80 percent of NASA?s fleet and include jets used for shuttle pilot training, the Boeing C-9B "Weightless Wonder" used in NASA?s Reduced Gravity Program, two jets used for high-altitude research, and the two modified 747s that are used to transport the space shuttle.
CSC provides engineering and maintenance services for NASA?s aircraft fleet, including the modified 747?s used to carry the space shuttle. (Photo courtesy NASA)
"CSC provides all of the basic services required for a high-tempo, complex aircraft organization to function," says Gary Ash, NASA?s branch chief for aircraft maintenance at Johnson Space Center. "Everything from sophisticated engineering to complex overhaul operations and repairs, CSC provides the full spectrum of capabilities that NASA requires. I can?t imagine, in the kind of environment we have, trying to get by without CSC," Ash says.
Full range of services
Bob Payne, CSC?s program manager, NASA aviation services at Johnson Space Center, describes CSC?s work: "The team does everything from routine daily maintenance of airplanes to depot-level maintenance, which requires the complete disassembly, repair, and reassembly of aircraft. It also performs airframe, electrical, electronics, flight control, and fuselage modifications to satisfy research program requirements, as well as repairs, upgrades and enhancements to the airplanes."
One example of CSC?s aircraft modification success is the work performed on a C-9B transport plane that NASA acquired from the Navy in 2003 to be used for research purposes and to train astronauts in a "weightless" environment as part of its Reduced Gravity Program. CSC, supporting NASA?s stringent technical requirements, designed, built and installed a complete suite of equipment in the cabin area to support microgravity research.
"CSC was key in designing, installing and doing much of the modifications in a real-time crunch to make sure that the airplane came out as soon as possible, but in a condition for safe operation," Ash says.
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Ash notes that the work on the C-9B typifies CSC?s willingness to meet the most difficult challenges and overall outstanding performance. "CSC really maintains a focus on safety and are cognizant of the implications of what we do to airplanes. So when we do repairs, sometimes they?ll engineer repairs that have never been done before." In other cases, CSC engineers the integration of instruments or modifications to aircraft or payloads with very little background information, and based only on aviation experience and knowledge.
?An excellent partner?
Another example of how CSC is applying its aerospace expertise is the engineering work performed in support of NASA?s High Altitude Research Program. Ash says, "CSC can do things such as help a scientist take a package which essentially has only worked in the laboratory and put it on the wing of an airplane to fly 12 miles in the sky or at 60 degrees below zero at very, very low pressures and still get it to function properly."
CSC also provides maintenance for the modified 747s used to transport the space shuttle, most commonly from California to Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the event of a landing at Edwards Air Force Base. Other aircraft CSC supports include the T-38 jets NASA uses for astronaut flight training and the Gulfstream business jets NASA pilots use to simulate space shuttle approaches and landings. CSC will also assist with the complete flight-testing of a B747 that is being deployed as the world?s largest airborne observatory within the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) project.
Payne says the unique requirements demanded by NASA are challenging, but CSC has consistently found ways to meet them. "They?ve become expectant of us to have unique solutions to the problems they encounter," he says.
"CSC is very responsive and they are great people to work with," Ash says. "They?re very accommodating to the shifting requirements that occur on an almost daily basis. CSC is an excellent partner and the primary team member that we have in making sure that the things that we do with our aircraft are done in a safe and effective manner."
